Jabari Parker's basket brought the Bucks within 104-101 with 1:05 to play. Washington grabbed an offensive rebound off a missed jumper by John Wall, and Otto Porter then found Morris wide open under the hoop off an inbounds play for a basket with 37.9 seconds left.

Milwaukee connected on 7 of 12 3-pointers in the first half and led 57-49 at the break.

The Wizards began the second half on a 15-6 run to take a 64-63 lead on Kelly Oubre's dunk. Oubre had 10 of his 17 points in the third, helping Washington outscore the Bucks 33-21 in the quarter.

"It was bad coaching," Kidd said. "I messed the guys up, it was on me. The third quarter was something we talked about and I didn't do a good job."

"This is a consistent thing we've been doing for the last six or seven games. The first quarter, we've been down. The third quarter, we've been down. This falls on my shoulders. I've got to do a better job of coaching there in the third." he said.

After turning the ball over 12 times in the first half, Washington committed just three miscues in the third quarter. The Wizards also took away the 3-point shot from the Bucks, as Milwaukee was 0 for 4 from distance in the third.

"We took those away in the second half and made them drive," Oubre said. "They got a lot more paint points than they did in the first half, but our goal was to run them off the 3-point line and contest all jumpers and layups."

Parker led Milwaukee with 28 points. Malcolm Brogdon finished with a career-high 22 points and Michael Beasley scored 18 points in 16 minutes off the bench.